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Chaim Potok

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Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.


— Chaim Potok


#come #continue #happy #happy things #let us

And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.


— Chaim Potok


#insights #into #magnificent #man #nature

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.


— Chaim Potok


#hungry #knowledge #new #new knowledge #species

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.


— Chaim Potok


#because #become #experience #human #human experience

Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it.


— Chaim Potok


#give #give me #i #me #most

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.


— Chaim Potok


#i #i write #sabbath #six #six days

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.


— Chaim Potok


#certainly #close #creativity #heard #i

I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.


— Chaim Potok


#chip #create #figure #find #following

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.


— Chaim Potok


#book #constantly #draft #entire #go






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Did you know about Chaim Potok?

After the publication of Old Men At Midnight he was diagnosed with brain cancer. He returned to Philadelphia in 1977. [page needed] Brought up to believe that the Jewish people were central to history and God's plans he experienced a region where there were almost no Jews and no anti-Semitism yet whose religious believers prayed with the same fervor that he saw in Orthodox synagogues at home.

Potok is most famous for his first book The Chosen a 1967 novel which was listed on The New York Times’ best seller list for 39 weeks and sold more than 3400000 copies.

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